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As the tale is constructed, without Judas, narrative stops
Posted on: April 14, 2017 at 10:41:24 CT
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The other disciples are lightweights compared to the tax collector. Though the very idea that the existing power structure in Jerusalem, the pharisees and sadducees - who were in thick as thieves with the Roman occupiers - could be so threatened by an itinerant preacher who served none but the poor and outcast that they would cook up a conspiracy with Jewdas - strains credulity.
Again, Christianity stands alone as a tradition calling itself historical. So you have the Preacher creating such a ruckus in the outer temple heading into a HUGE and tumultuous holiday weekend that the Romans rightly might look to make an example of him or simply silence him. That the Pharisees could coincidentally conspired with Jewdas, is hard to figure. Great story telling though.
Judas may have been a creation of or exaggeration of an historic figure exploited by anti-semitic Christian writers 60 years out. Interesting b/c The Way - which was the Jesus ministry was a Jew thing initially.
Again, Christianity stands alone as a tradition calling itself historical. So you have the Preacher creating such a ruckus in the outer temple heading into a HUGE and tumultuous holiday weekend that the Romans rightly might look to make an example of him or simply silence him. That the Pharisees could coincidentally conspired with Jewdas, is hard to figure. Great story telling though.
Judas may have been a creation of or exaggeration of an historic figure exploited by anti-semitic Christian writers 60 years out. Interesting b/c The Way - which was the Jesus ministry was a Jew thing initially.
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As the tale is constructed, without Judas, narrative stops - raskolnikov MU - 4/14 10:41:24